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38 Cards in this Set
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What is Migration? |
move from one place to another. Ex. Asia moves to Angel island while European Immigrants move to Ellis Island |
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What are migration factors? |
Weather, Poverty, better land, more jobs, the crime rate |
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What is manifest destiny? |
where you want to own land from sea to sea |
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Who are the sodbusters? |
The people who first move out west to bust up the grass or dirt. |
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What is the homestead act? |
where the federal goverment gives you 160 acres of land and you have to live there for five years but can be present 6 months out of 1 year |
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Pacific railways act? |
were the union and pacific meet in the middle
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Morill land grand act |
known as the land collee act to boost higher education and was made by justin morrill |
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Transcontinental railroad |
was used to link the United States from west to east |
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union pacfic? |
irish and formal slaves start heading west and meet in the middle |
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central pacfic |
Chinese start building railroad in Californina and start heading East |
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Joseph Glidden |
invented bobwire |
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barbed wire |
put up by the homesteaders to stop open range from happening |
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John Deere |
invented the plow |
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reservation |
land givin to the indians |
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uses of buffalo |
USA uses to make profit but native americans used to eat and use bones for tools |
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little big horn |
known as custers last stand; Led by Gen custer. it was a wage war against whites for their refusal to stay off tribal land |
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sitting bull |
leader of the sioux |
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Gen Custer |
army officer: calvary commander in indian adn civil war |
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Woounded knee |
the site of 2 conflicts between north americans adn us representives of government |
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Ghost dance |
ritual the native americans performed for bringing in white men |
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Chief Joseph |
known as Nev Perce |
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Sand creek |
located in colorado: massacure in 1864 and a war between native americans and indians |
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buffalo soldiers |
a group of all blacks that were used to fight native americans |
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assimilation |
believed that people need to assimilate.. covert to christianity.. emphanzized on formal education and training |
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Dawes act |
Americans try to get the Natice americans to adapt to their culture to get rid of the way they dress and their religion |
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push factors |
things thst push you away from an area Ex. No jobs |
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pull factors |
pull you into a area: More oppurtinities |
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new immigration |
comes from italians jews russians and southwest |
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old immigration |
people coming from britian and germany |
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melting pot |
come into society assimilate and adopt the standards of their new adapted society |
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statue of liberty |
symbol of freedom and gift from the french |
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Ellis Island |
eurpeone immigrants migrate to here |
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effects on the cities |
more jobs, population problems poverty the crime rates |
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Urbanization |
people flock from one city to another: Rapid rate of increasing population percentage |
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Tenement |
a house rented to more then 3 independent families dwelling on that house until the new deal comes |
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Ghettos |
a part of the city were minotory groups live because of social and economic pressure |
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political machines |
party organized by one single boss or group to control votes |
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Who was Boss Tweed? |
The leader of the democratic tammy hall who was known for the corrrupt political machines and cheated the city out of lots of money |
